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Hospital Bag for Birth – What to Bring?

PreggNet Team — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:41:35 +0000

If you are wondering what you should bring in your birth hospital bag.

10 Most Essential Items You Must Bring With You to the Hospital

1. First things first. You need a diaper bag, yes that hospital bag you can’t do without. Remember to purchase and arrange your new chic bag in advance and just tell your partner to bring it in when time comes.

Ok, so you must already know my love for the OiOi diaper bags. They are very practical, gorgeous and that’s why they are selling like crazy. Check out these 2 cute diaper bags perfect as hospital bags.

2. A burping cloth is one necessary item. You can’t move without it. You want your first touch with your baby to be amazing and unforgettable. The Peanut Shell – The Peanut Shell Burp Cloth Set – Window Shopping Set of three super soft burping cloths to coordinate perfectly with your Peanut Shell nursing cover. Perfect shape and size for burp cloths!

3. This baby kit will save you a lot of space in your diaper bag. Actually, this is more for you than the baby,you want to keep fresh and clean while giving birth. Johnson & Johnson – Johnson’s Baby kit – Bathtime Essentials Set Essential products, in a sturdy, plastic bath caddy, to care for your baby at bathtime. This gift set contains: -7 oz. Baby Shampoo -9 oz. Baby Lotion -9 oz HEAD-TO-TOE@ Baby Wash -3 oz Baby Oil -9 oz Baby Powder with Pure Cornstarch -2 oz Desitin Original Diaper Cream -55 Ct Safety Swabs.

4. Diapers. You can never bring enough diapers. It’s a new thing you need to get to know your baby needs first so take as much as you can with you. Plus, take 20% OFF Huggies Newborn Diapers (Limited time, no code)

5. Wipes, wipes, wipes. You need this product and you will use it for your baby’s every need. Whether it’s a cloth wipe, or a disposable, make sure to put it in the diaper bag.

6. Diaper rash cream. This can be useful to protect the baby’s skin from day one. Desitin – DESITIN@ Maximum Strength Diaper Rash Paste- 4 oz Tube Rich, Thick and Effective DESITIN@ Maximum Strength Diaper Rash Paste is formulated with 40% zinc oxide, in a base of cod liver oil (rich in Vitamins A and D), lanolin, and petrolatum. Its rich, thick formula stands up to diaper rash, providing long lasting protection against wetness and irritants.

7. Baby clothes to get your bundle warm. Baby onesie and cap are most recommended. Gerber Newborn 3pk Long-Sleeve Onesie Set – White 6-9M are lovely.

8. Food and your favorite kind of flavored water. Could be a life saver.

9. iPod. Try to have your music fix ready to relax during labor.

10. Camera. Smile!

Baby Nutrition Saving Money Tips

PreggNet Team — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:06:55 +0000

Store baby food in the fridge and don’t throw out leftovers. Homemade baby food will save you a lot of money if you are making it a week in advance and that way you also save a lot of time in the kitchen. You can look for homemade recipes online and discover what kind of fruits and veggies your baby loves the most.

My nephew just loves eating for lunch this great simple soup pureed and it’s so yummy and delicious and easy to make. Just cook in water chicken, potatoes, yams, quinoa, carrots and any vegetable you love would be perfect for this. I take it out of the water and puree it until it’s perfectly smooth for the baby to eat. I don’t add any spices or salt because babies don’t need that kind of stuff.

For breakfast I make bananas, pears, apples, oranges and some fresh berries. This is so good even for adults. to keep the bananas from turning black I add a little lemon juice on top of the puree to prevent it from changing color and lose all the nutritious vitamins. Sometimes I just make double the amount because I have to have some for myself. I make it fresh every morning because fruit lose vitamins very quickly so it’s very important to make it fresh. It’s better tasting that way too.

Are Clothes Diapers Better than Disposable Diapers?

PreggNet Team — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:50:54 +0000

6 reasons to use clothes diapers and why they are better than disposable diapers

1. Avoid the chemicals
2. Save money
3. Go green and help save the planet
4. Baby skin breathes better in clothes diaper and prevents rashes
5. Saves you time going to the supermarket
6. Super absorbent, well designed, easy to use, wash them at home

You need to buy about 20 clothes diapers for a year for your baby and reuse them and enjoy a better quality of absorbent during the night. This only, will save you about $2,000 cost for disposable diapers. Of course you need to add the costs of washing the clothes diapers and the little mount of buying 20 diapers could be as little as $400 total. The saving are obvious and you also get to keep your baby’s butt nice and healthy avoiding the chemicals which from my experience cause bad rashes leading to sleepless night and making your baby suffer.

I was really sceptic at first to use clothes diapers as well, but after you watch all of those videos to help you realize the routines that comes with changing clothes diapers, it’s not so bad.

You need to have a bag for used dirty diapers. A place to arrange all of the clean ones near the nursery, a washing machine, depending on which clothes diapers you use you might need liners for the diapers to help you keep it clean. Dry them outside to save money on electricity and there you go. All you need to do is shop for the best clothes diapers. I prefer the BumGenius.

Saving Money Using Clothes Diapers

PreggNet Team — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:48:49 +0000

There are many companies selling clothes diapers these days. It’s not what you think anymore, clothes diapers aren’t what they used to be and they are very easy to clean and to use, and most of all they are the best for the baby’s skin because the don’t include all sorts of chemicals which often lead to baby skin rash and discomfort.

Double Savings Using Clothes Diapers

The benefits are huge when you are buying clothes diapers. You stop throwing out disposable diapers which are so bad for the environment and you save money not having to go the grocery store every time you ran out of diapers.

They are easy to clean and wash in a washing machine then dry out in the air for the whole day which doesn’t make you use electricity and when they are left to dry, you use the other diapers you have ready to use.

Your baby will love the diapers as they are so comfortable for the skin and prevent unwanted rashes other diapers cause because of the chemicals that makes the waste go jello. You will have to buy at list 10-15 diapers and reuse with liners especially made for clothes diapers.

The total savings a year using clothes diapers could be as much as $2,000.

Lunchbox Deals: Horizon Milk, Clif Kids, More

PreggNet Team — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:32:43 +0000

The kids are (finally!) back in school. For some of us, that means getting back into the routine of packing a lunch. Some of my favorite lunch box items are on sale at Amazon.

Pick up 18 8 oz. cartons Horizon Organic Reduced Fat Chocolate or Vanilla Milk at Amazon right now for .71 ea, with Subscribe & Save. I love these for lunches and travel because they don’t require refrigeration.

My son can’t get enough of these Clif Kids Twisted Fruit Ropes, and I’ve been known to sneak a few for myself. Get 18 for $10.62 with Subscribe and Save.

Save an extra 10% on Kashi products with code KLGSNYNY. That makes three 8.5 oz boxes of these yummy Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Kashi cookies just $6.85 with Subscribe and Save.

Thanks for reading BabyCheapskate.com!

Design for Greatness – Your Kid’s Bedroom

PreggNet Team — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:24:20 +0000

Your kids room is the one place your child is going to spend most of his first years in our world, and it has a huge impact on everything he does or will grow to be. Have you ever thought of it that way?

It’s important that you help him make it his or her home, their fort, their comfort and safe zone where they can either hide away from the world when they need shelter, or welcome the world into when they need company.

Here are a few tips to help you build a small little heaven for you offsprings:

Design Shell are talking about how pink girls and blue for boys is passé, and how to pick the right colors to match your child’s personality.

I’m not a big believer in Feng Shui, but they always have a few good ideas that makes total sense, like this article about Feng Shui for your child’s room.

Now if you really love your child, check this gallery out, where you’ll find amazing designs and ideas, or better yet, get some inspiration from your favorite tv shows here. Need even more inspiration? Here’s your fix, but be careful, nothing will look good enough after checking that link out… ok, except for maybe the Cinderella room here or “The coolest room evarrrr“.

Top Tips on Buying the Best Baby Toys on a Budget

sparkposts — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:40:22 +0000

Showering your child with toys might seem like a great way to show you love them, but for your baby, the more the merrier doesn’t necessarily apply. Though babies are easily stimulated by anything they get their hands on, they usually find themselves clinging to an average of only 3 out of the 20 toys that they have.

It’s hard to tell what toy they’ll enjoy, so save yourself a pretty penny by being smart about the baby toys you buy:

1. Don’t Go Branded – Fisher-Price and Little Tikes may be household names when it comes to baby toys, but spending the extra dollar on a brand might be all in vain if your baby doesn’t end up liking it.

2. Observe What Your Kid Likes – See what toys your baby enjoys when he or she is at a friend’s house or at daycare. If you find out that they’ve been playing with the same toy over and over again, it might be a sign that you’ve found the perfect toy for them.

3. Buy secondhand – A good toy is a good toy, and as long as it isn’t broken or harmful, you can always find yourself a deal on Ebay or at a local garage sale. Always research on the toy you’re buying. Make sure to inspect it thoroughly before paying for it and handing it to your child.

I Work at Home – You Should Too

PreggNet Team — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:57:36 +0000

I bet this is the most important article you are going to read today. It’s definitely the most important I’ve ever written.

So I hope you can take the time and read just the next paragraph because i’m about to tell you exactly what I do, and how I do it.

The last day at my job as an office manager was April 29 2010. I remember the disbelieve in my co-worker’s eyes when I told them I’m going to be working from home from now on. They thought I was leaving for a better job and didn’t have the courage to tell them. Imagine yourself telling your boss goodbye. I remember my biggest fear was to crawl back two months later looking for a job again.

But here I am, running pregg.net from home, with no boss, no office and no hours, with my dear fiance Adam. We have been doing this both for a while now, and we couldn’t have done it without this man:

Trust me, you want to know who this man is. But we’ll get to that in a minute, because I want to make a very important point now: THERE’S NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT ME. I don’t know how to code, or design websites or anything. All I had was a wish, and some luck – to be inspired by my fiance, and that guy in the picture, and make a decision: I WANT MORE FROM LIFE.

Working at home isn’t a lot to ask for these days… If you’re on Facebook, you already know enough to be able to do it.

What I’m trying to say is that you can do exactly what I do, if you put your mind to it. I mean, hey… it’s 2011 for christ’s sake. We don’t have to work at factories anymore. You don’t have to be rich or have a death wish in order to build a business. And you sure as hell don’t have to wake every morning and fight traffic to get to an office in time, where you spend half the time procrastinating and complaining about your boss’s annoying habits.

Working at home is not a lot to ask these days, and if you’re reading this, chances are you have a Facebook account, which means you know enough about working with computers to be able to work from home (don’t tell anyone, but I’m still struggling with Facebook myself).

Anyway, this guy in the picture? His name is Jeremy Schoemaker, and most people know him as “Shoemoney”. That’s cause he makes a lot of money on the internet. That picture was the one that made him famous.

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And he makes even more money by teaching people how to make money as well. In fact, a lot of what I learned was from his blog and forum posts. And this is where this article gets important, because I want to give you a gift. It’s not really mine to give, but you have to understand that it took MONTHS for me to be able to learn enough to get pregg.net running well enough to quit my job. And I’m going to save you all this time. Because Jeremy recently came up with a system that teaches people how to do what he does (and what I do), but he spent enough time to make it fool-proof. And boy, I wish I had that kind of system when I was starting out, because it would save me months of scraping information bits and learning on my own…

So anyway, I’ll stop rambling now. Just go check it out. Please. It might change your life (it changed mine).

http://bit.ly/workathomeNow.

Note: if you click the link, and it leaves as big an impression as it left on me, and you decide to go on with the program, I might get a few bucks from Jeremy for referring you. The cool thing is the system shows you exactly why and how I managed to pull this off, and hopefully you’d be able to do similar things when you work from home.

18 Y.O. Mom Makes $280,000 a Year!

PreggNet Team — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:02:51 +0000

Amber Portwood’s salary, a reality show teenage mom was revealed with many eyebrows raised. She is paid an annual salary of no less than $280,000. Many moms who have read this troubling news, thought this could bring young girls like Amber, who sets a bad example on them, to get pregnant as teenage moms for the money MTV is willing to pay her for playing herself, dealing with motherhood as a teenager with four other moms on the show Teen Mom.

Amber is a young mother to a 2 year old daughter Leah, who copes with having to raise her daughter on her own, with the help of her friends and family, watching her closely juggling school, a baby and switching boyfriends infront of the cameras.

In many ways, the show sends two messages to the viewers who are mostly teenage girls. One is don’t get pregnant when you are young, how hard it is to raise a baby when you are at school, showing all of the struggles these moms have to go through. The other message is, once her salary was revealed, is ‘look how much money I make regardless of the consequences’.

Breastfeeding Is Still Best for Your Baby and Your Budget

sparkposts — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:43:34 +0000

Whether it’s from the bottle or the breast, choosing the best way to feed your child is one of the most important decisions mothers have to make for their newborn. Though traditionalists advise that breastfeeding is still best for your baby, even modern mothers are discovering that breastfeeding is also best on the budget.

Breastfeeding saves you the effort and the expense of buying a constant supply of formula. With newborns feeding as often as twelve times per day, you can be sure that whatever hassle you’re avoiding by buying formula is transferred to the amount of money and time you’ll be spending at the store. Don’t worry about the baby’s feeding time getting too much in the way of your schedule, as soon as your body settles into the habit of breastfeeding you can save some breast milk for later with a handy breast pump.

Despite the many developments in infant formula, nutritionists still cite breastfeeding as the best source of nourishment for your baby. Experts recommend breastfeeding for as long as you and your baby are able. And with breast milk lasting up to ten hours in room temperature, you can be sure to have constant supply ready for your little one.